Bristol OOD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Object-Oriented Design (OOD) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OOD over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Redhill Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Surrey Thames Valley Twickenham UK Wales Waterlooville West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	66
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.508 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£369
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.47	£36.95
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	462	591
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.647 %	0.606 %
Daily rates quoted	143	242
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£343
Average daily rate	£361	£363
% change on same period last year	-0.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	79	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.39	£29.80
Average hourly rate	£30.02	£32.75
% change on same period last year	-8.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.65	£35.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.37	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
OOD South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

OOD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OOD across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

OOD
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OOD across the Bristol region.